A leader of an organized atheist group (the far left of organized religion) interviews a member of the liberal media class (the new clerisy) on the role of the religious right (clerical oligarchs manipulating naive peasants on behalf of the right-wing of the ruling class/dying WASP elite/Likudniks/war profiteers). […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
This is from 2016 before Trump was elected. Trump might be considered “WASP America’s Last Stand” and he was only elected by rhetorically moving leftward on foreign policy and economic issues. A problem with our anarcho-progressive friends, and the general left, is that they have not updated their […]
Carlson calls out the federal police state about 3 minutes into this. Ilhan Omar’s response is disappointing and regrettably rooted in partisan/cultural/tribal politics than actual opposition to the system. From Trump-loyaltist three percenters to Democrat-voting Marxists, it’s interesting how few supposed “radicals” actually oppose the system.
Hat tip to Robert Smith for finding this. I can’t say I really disagree with any of it. The only thing I might add is that anarchists should not only carve out an independent political identity for themselves but also nurture anti-authoritarian tendencies wherever they appear, left, right, […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss recent arrests of the father and son that shot Ahmaud Arbery, after newly released video from Feb. went viral this week that showed them hunt Arbery down and kill him.
One interesting aspect of this segment is where Michael Brooks describes himself as having been a “Chomsky kid” (#metoo, Michael) and how the far-left in the US is largely just “progressive liberalism with an anarchist tinge.” Amen, brother. Michael seems to have since moved to something along the […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right are spinning their own narratives on the coronavirus fallout. The Left is depicting a situation where greedy business owners and right-wing conspiracy nuts want to endanger everyone’s health by reopening the economy so they can make money. The Right is depicting […]
The Intra-Left civil wars really are becoming as divisive as the Left/Right Red/Blue civil war. Funny.
Of course, because it doesn’t cost the system anything. Neoliberals use “woke” tokenism and right-wingophobia to wrap the Left around their little fingers. Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Biden’s commitment to passing an equality act in the first 100 days if elected.
Not bad, Krystal. Krystal Ball reviews Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ documentary trailer and breaks down why the Obama administration failed to make structural change within the establishment.
The Republicans could best be described as a hybrid of the right-wing plutocratic parties of Latin American (like El Salvador’s ARENA) and Israel’s Likud Party (militarists and Zionist expansionists). Under Trump, they’ve at times tried to recast themselves as LePenism-lite. The question is whether their exoteric doctrine will […]
This is an interesting discussion of how the neocons and their allies have recolonized the Democratic Party from whence they came. Krystal and Saagar discuss the Lincoln Project’s smear ad against Donald Trump after expense reports showed $1.08M of $1.14M went to Lincoln Project executives. The hosts also […]
At present, the United States (the mother country of a world empire that is the most expansive and powerful in history) is in a position that might be considered a very minor league version of what the Europeans faced in the early modern period. From the fourth century […]
It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
The ATS masthead contains the slogan “Pan-Anarchism Against, Pan-Secessionism Against the Empire” which is merely an expression of a very simple concept, and which is predictably misunderstood by many people (because many people are dumbasses).
In recent times, I have seen a number of commentators calling for one or another kind of left/right hybrid populism. Some years ago, Ralph Nader was pushing this idea (obviously unsuccessfully). More recently, Krystal Ball (social democrat) and Saager Enjeti (economic nationalist) of The Hill’s Rising have promoted […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns. The Left has an abiding faith in the managerial state, worships at the altar of the therapeutic state, professes scientism, never misses an opportunity to call for expanding the welfare state, dislikes […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right As I write this in late April, the most probable course of the coronavirus (a.k.a. Flu Manchu) is that it is at or past its peak medically and case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths will decline steadily hereafter. Economically, the country will have […]
Protests to go back to work, protests to keep from going back to work, tenants threaten rent strikes, landlords threat tax strikes, debt strikes, labor strikes…This is all starting to look kind of like pan-secessionism, actually. Everyone protests whatever they feel like protesting but withdraws consent from the […]
#Metoo, Saager, you milquetoast statist-reformist Ross Douthat-loving nerdboy. The commentary and analysis in this is pretty good. They admit the Republican and Democratic “establishment” are on the same side while the left and right engage in tribal warfare over nonsense.
#Metoo was never anything more than a media/corporate/Democratic Party-fueled “satanic panic” that was used to advance the interests of the left-wing of capitalism, the Democratic Party, and cultural war tribalism. Sexual assault is a real issue and involves real crimes of aggression, but one that was merely exploited […]
The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Swithun Dobson and Tim Patton interviews Keith Preston on the left and there relationship with the Police state. Our guest, Keith Preston, is the author of books such as Thinkers against Modernity as well as Attack the System who can be found at […]
The ACLU and other similar groups are good at defending civil liberties valued by liberals and leftists. There are other groups that defend civil liberties that are valued by conservatives and libertarians. Ideally, an anarchist mass movement would have the defense of ALL civil liberties as its primary […]
This is a very, very basic high school level overview of different theories of how the state actually works in terms of the distribution of power. Unfortunately, most Americans do not have even a high school level education in the social sciences and political science (they have more […]
Krystal Ball discusses why Michigan protesters’ goal to reopen the economy is irresponsible and dangerous, but that those radical tactics are necessary to be heard by a government that prioritizes corporate fealty over workers needs.
The main problem the Democraps have is their delusion they can win elections on demographics and culture-war politics alone while ignoring class issues, and the Left falls right in line behind this (“The Deplorables Are Coming!”). Then along comes right-wing populism. Does the Left not realize that Marx […]
Bill Lind argues that a successful populism would be culturally conservative and economically liberal. It’s true that research shows that Republican voters lean to the left of their elites on economics and that Democratic voters lean to the right of their elites on social questions. But this ignores […]
The statist-centrist-centralist-reformist-electoralist “populism” of Krystal and Saager is interesting and insightful in some ways, but lame as hell in other ways. Gotta get over that “social contract” mythology, Saager. Four suggestions: 1. Renounce the state and become anarchists. The state is the enemy of all mankind. 2. Abandon […]
The basic arguments that these guys make are spot-on: If you don’t want more anti-lockdown protests (and more), then a debt moratorium is essential. Ben Burgis Debunks Critics Of His “Reopen America” Piece
By Ben Burgis Jacobin The anti-lockdown protests may currently represent a Trumpian minority — but that could easily change if the choice becomes going hungry or going back to work. We need a real alternative that refuses to accept the false trade-off between economic security and public health. […]
I don’t really see these guys becoming popular in the US. American-style right-wing populism is the Know-Nothing tradition, not Throne and Altar. The problem with the US right in all its forms is that it is swimming against the demographic, cultural, generation, economic, and technological tides. The future […]
Two writers that have influenced my own thinking as much as any others are Noam Chomsky and Kevin Carson. Chomsky has probably influenced my thinking on international relations to a greater degree than any other writer on the topic, and Carson has probably influenced my thinking on economics […]
Deference to credentialed and experienced experts is generally a good plan barring compelling evidence to the contrary, but “experts” are not divine oracles, and science and medicine can become corrupted, abusive, or incompetent as much as any other kind of institution. One thing that I have found interesting […]
Rising is by far the best the “mainstream media” has to offer, which is why I post so much of their material here, but this guy’s critique of Rising, echoing Kim Iversen, for not being nearly radical enough is spot on. A real test of a media outlet’s […]
Krystal and Saagar comment on U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe Instagram live with Joe and Jill Biden, where Jill Biden flaunts her purple hair streak to show solidarity with equal pay, in honor of Rapinoe’s signature look at the World Cup.
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It’s funny how the parties and their mouthpieces have reversed roles overnight when it comes to sexual assault allegations against public officials. A real “We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia” moment.
Krystal has really been getting attacked by the SJW crowd lately, which means she is likely on the right track. I reject Tucker Carlson’s populist-nationalism and social conservatism. I reject Krystal’s statist-reformist social democracy. And I reject the libtard-leftard-SJW-Antifa pathological right-wingophobia. Kyle’s commentary is this is pretty good.
If the Libertarians nominate this guy as their candidate they deserve to completely go out of business. Jacob Hornberger, Adam Kokesh, Vermin Supreme…all fine. More Republican throwaways…no. Prediction: As the neoliberals continue to get squeezed by faux socialist from the left and faux populists from the right, libertarian […]
No, but neither were the Chomskyian anarcho-Hillaryites. We update the libertarians for trump as well as discuss the ways in which most nevertrumpers inside and outside the libertarian camp have failed to have a substantial criticism while Block’s case has largely been correct in the past 4 years.
They cite an interesting study in this which claims that the Republican “donor class” and the “base” largely align on social and cultural issues, but that the base is to the left of the donor class on economic issues. Meanwhile, the study shows that Democratic elites and the […]
William “Goofy” Gillis is something of a minor league Alexander Reid-Ross. While Reid-Ross promotes the standard neoliberal Hillary Clinton/Samantha Power/MSNBC/SPLC line on both foreign policy (“The Russians are coming!” and domestic policy (” The deplorables are coming!”), Gillis tends to focus on conspiracies by “micronationalists” and “reactionaries” to […]
As a general principle, I am for an “open-ended” approach to anarchist theory and practice in the sense of letting “a thousand flowers bloom.” I certainly don’t expect all anarchists everywhere to adopt my approach, and there can certainly be separate but parallel tendencies to the ATS perspective […]
Glad to see some left-wing folks questioning the official ruling class party line.
The tech oligarchy is a principal faction of the rising left-wing of the capitalist class, for whom scientism and the therapeutic state are a core component of their self-legitimating ideology, which is in turn disseminated by the new clerisy whose ranks include the white coat priesthood.
LOL. I’m sure that if Alex Cockburn was alive today he would be denounced as a “fascist.” He was far to un-PC, individualistic, and freethinking to be “woke.”
The future of “progressive politics” is to do what it does now, i.e. serve as the loyal foot soldiers of the left-wing of the capitalist class and the New Clerisy. And the networks air Trump’s pressers because most of the networks are Democratic Party propaganda mills, and they […]
Like most cults, the Democratic Party has both an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. “Wokeness” is the exoteric doctrine that is intended for the purpose of manipulating and motivating the rank and file of true believers (the progressive liberal/social democratic/SJW/Antifa/anarcho-progressive axis) while neoliberalism is the esoteric doctrine of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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